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NBR: What grows well in your garden?

FeistyFilleFeistyFille
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We're taking the tree accident as an opportunity to do some much needed landscaping and planting. We're looking for native drought- and deer-resistant plants, big & small.  So far we're planning to add a small cedar elm to replace our big tree, a desert willow, some yellow bells and Sandankwa viburnum bushes & cherry laurels for screening around our back porch. Anyone have any other suggestions for low maintenance plants that grow well around here?
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  • angelaggieangelaggie member
    I like mountain laurels a lot. It's about the size of a crape myrtle though. My azaleas have been doing well. 
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  • FireChiefsBrideFireChiefsBride member

    I have a handy dandy 52-page booklet the city produces with native and adapted landscape plants- it covers hardiness, seasons, deer resistance, size, etc.  It's the free one they give out at Lowe's and HD during the spring.  If you'd like one, I'd be happy to drop it in the mail.

    Flipping through it, some of my favorites have been:

    Bottlebrush, Indian Hawthorne,Oleander, Texas Sage (super hearty), Artemesia (very easy to grow, very pretty), Turks Cap, Yellow Bells/ Esperanza, Blood Sage, Lantana, Plumbago. And then the grasses- fountain, feathergrass, muhlys.

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    imageFireChiefsBride:

    I have a handy dandy 52-page booklet the city produces with native and adapted landscape plants- it covers hardiness, seasons, deer resistance, size, etc.  It's the free one they give out at Lowe's and HD during the spring.  If you'd like one, I'd be happy to drop it in the mail.

    Flipping through it, some of my favorites have been:

    Bottlebrush, Indian Hawthorne,Oleander, Texas Sage (super hearty), Artemesia (very easy to grow, very pretty), Turks Cap, Yellow Bells/ Esperanza, Blood Sage, Lantana, Plumbago. And then the grasses- fountain, feathergrass, muhlys.

    I'm pretty sure I'm flipping through that same book right now.  :)  Thanks for the recs!

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  • angelaggieangelaggie member
    Ooooo. I really like Texas sage. 
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  • NessiaNessia

    I have this kind of salvia and I couldn't kill it if I tried. It survived last summers heat with me not watering very often. Bought it at Home Depot several years ago for my front flower bed and it's always flowering.

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    imageNessia:

    I have this kind of salvia and I couldn't kill it if I tried. It survived last summers heat with me not watering very often. Bought it at Home Depot several years ago for my front flower bed and it's always flowering.

    . Salvia microphylla var. neurepia

    I was going to say Salvia - I didn't have to do a thing to mine and it just grew and grew.  Same for Lantana.  The nice thing was they both flowered and would attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

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